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Why write?
Hello everyone,
I haven’t been writing much.
I changed the theme again. I can’t seem to decide upon a better theme, since I became bored with the earlier one.
So it may be changing again soon.
I was thinking about our Creator.
While it is easy to imagine a Creator, I find it much harder to believe in a personal G-d. The closest I get is a sort of Jung-like communal consciousness that may or may not include a “one-consciousness” that we experience as G-d sometimes.
At the same time, Judaism has such a good grasp of the way things work, spiritually, emotionally and physically, that it is what I need.
May I have more clarity on this subject as needed, and soon!
Women/Men Housework
So women and men are not equally sharing the work at home as noted in this NY Times Article. I tried to post about it earlier.
Jack’s Shack had a post about a similar issue that I read today, and I had to finish this post I was working on about it.
This issue is what really had me starting this blog.
I grew up with mother who called herself post-feminist (20 years ago) and really she was pre-feminist.
Then she went through her “phase” as my father called it of no cooking and saying rude things in general about men.
I did that the first 5 or so years of my marriage–and after that I “found” Judaism and after seeing that it had a more evenly-partnered view of a marriage (than the somewhat traditional Christianity I had become involved in). See the first post of my blog for a short intro about that. And then embraced somewhat more traditional Judaism from having influence by Chabad that introduced me to everything Jewish.
On the other hand, even if he has some possible of being related to, my husband is not Jewish.
So that has kept me close to the questions of everything.
To be continued…
Some articles
I have been reading these two articles today.
The first is about the kosher meat question. And I like the opinion expressed here. I had been trying to formulate for myself if I thought the meat was kosher to buy, and now it makes sense what I was thinking–and it was something along these lines.
Next I was looking at the NY Times online, and this article caught my eye about Michelle Obama.
She is very interesting to me as a woman, since I keep looking for role models who are married and also strong and making their own choices and opinions. Maybe this shows how unformed I am as a grown woman–but so be it then.
I have to start somewhere.
I have not written in so long, in part because I have some good ideas, but every time I sit down to write, it seems something else is more important. Am I having procrastination? I think it’s more of I had been unsure of where I stand on anything.
So, that’s all for today
Tags: kosher, politics, role model, woman
